Skylar Thompson skylar2@u.washington.edu
4314 Winslow Pl N #202
Seattle, WA 98103
206-914-6128 (cell), 206-685-7354 (work)

1  Education

I graduated in 2006 from Earlham College with a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science. My experience with computers consists of a significant amount of self-taught knowledge, in addition to the following courses:
Algorithms & Data Structures
Principles of Computer Organization
Parallel & Distributed Computing
Theory of Computation
Networks & Networking
Database Systems
Ford/Knight Research Project (Java programming)
Senior Seminar Software Engineering
Student research (molecular dynamics & portable cluster design)

2  Computer Skills

Computer Languages --- Have experience with application programming in C, C++ and Java, and administrative scripting in Bourne shell and Perl. Have experience with parallel programming using the Message Passing Interface in C, and also in using the LATEX computerized typesetting language.

Hardware --- Have worked with standard Intel and Athlon hardware, and also with with MIPS-based Digital DECsystem servers, SGI Indy workstations, Sun IPX SPARCstations and UltraSPARC workstations. Set up hardware RAID systems, in addition to software RAID systems in GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. Have worked with Extreme Network switches, and Cisco 2500 and AGS+ routers. Have worked with Sun Storagetek arrays, EMC CX3 SANs, and Brocade and Qlogic Fibre Channel switches. Have substantial experience maintaing and troubleshooting a Spectra Logic T950 tape robot.

Operating Systems --- Administered GNU/Linux (Red Hat and Debian), FreeBSD, NetBSD, Microsoft Windows (3.1 through XP), IBM OS/2, and Sun Solaris, and have some experience with OpenBSD and OpenVMS.

Servers --- Setup numerous software packages for servers: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Teradactyl TiBS, Samba NT PDC, Apache, NIS, NFS, OpenLDAP, Sendmail, Postfix, UW-IMAP/POP3, Squid, BIND DNS, RADIUS, Nagios networking monitoring, ISC DHCP, CUPS, and NAT gateways.

3  Additional Experience

Human Languages --- Conversant in both written and spoken Spanish.

4  Paid Experience


System Administrator June 2006 -- present
University of Washington School of Medicine, Genome Sciences Department Seattle, WA

Administrator January 2003 -- present
Earlham College Computer Science Department Richmond, IN

Researcher Summer 2005 - present
Earlham College Cluster Computing Group Richmond, IN

5  Other Experience


Intern October 2002 -- May 2003
Earlham Computing Center Richmond, IN

6  References

Available upon request.


This document was translated from LATEX by HEVEA.